by NYC Parks
Jackson Pond Playground is a NYC Parks play area inside Forest Park, with climbing structures and play equipment scaled for kids. Transfer platforms and ground-level play pieces give kids with limited mobility ways to get onto and around the equipment. On hot summer days the spray showers switch on, and kids run through the water to cool off.
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Open dawn to dusk; spray showers run in summer on hot days
Free; no registration
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Ages 0–12.
Free; no registration
Open dawn to dusk; spray showers run in summer on hot days
Forest Park at 108th St & Myrtle Ave, 11418, in Richmond Hill, Queens.
No. Jackson Pond Playground is outdoors, so plan for weather, sunscreen and water.
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